Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-25 Thread Tim Bostrom
OK, so 952 errors (about 450k) and 25+ hours later, I have a copy of the hdf drive on a brand new 250GB drive thanks to dd_rescue. I haven't tried swapping it to the array. That's the next step. I imagine, I'll be able to mdadm --assemble --force and have it take the 4 drives into the

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-24 Thread David Greaves
Arthur Britto wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:17 -0700, Tim Bostrom wrote: I bought two extra 250GB drives - I'll try using dd_rescue as recommended and see if I can get a good copy of hdf online. You might want to use dd_rhelp: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html Having

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-23 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:17 -0700, Tim Bostrom wrote: I bought two extra 250GB drives - I'll try using dd_rescue as recommended and see if I can get a good copy of hdf online. You might want to use dd_rhelp: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html -Arthur - To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Tim Bostrom wrote: It appears that /dev/hdf1 failed this past week and /dev/hdh1 failed back in February. An obvious question would be, how much have you been altering the contents of the array since February? I tried a mdadm --assemble --force and was able to get the following:

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-22 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Molle Bestefich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 22 April 2006 05:54: Tim Bostrom wrote: raid5: Disk failure on hdf1, disabling device. MD doesn't like to find errors when it's rebuilding. It will kick that disk off the array, which will cause MD to return crap (instead of stopping the array

Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-22 Thread David Greaves
Carlos Carvalho wrote: Molle Bestefich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 22 April 2006 05:54: Tim Bostrom wrote: raid5: Disk failure on hdf1, disabling device. MD doesn't like to find errors when it's rebuilding. It will kick that disk off the array, which will cause MD to return crap